In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Het absurdste aan dit hele verhaal is toch wel dat dit in 2017 al is onthuld door Roemeense onderzoeksjournalisten en dat de beste man vervolgens nog acht jaar rustig kon doordoen. Pas in 2025 kwam een collega van hem het Roemeense nieuws toevallig tegen en kwam de zaak aan het rollen.

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Een Amerikaans bespiedbedrijf infiltreert stilletjes Europa en krijgt toegang tot onze belangrijkste databanken, van ziekenhuizen tot politiesystemen. Het is tijd om de alarmbellen aan te slaan en dit een halt toe te roepen. Teken de petitie. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

AI-generated sites are flooding the internet, swallowing all in their wake

This is wild: the authors find evidence for giant, macro-predatory octopuses in Late Cretaceous oceans that might max out at *62 feet long,* comfortably large enough to attack, kill and eat mosasaurs

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Trump and his sons have enriched themselves by over 4 Billion dollars since he came into office This is by FAR the most corrupt administration ever

Imagine traveling back to 1776, bringing news from April 2026 that people flew around the moon again and that the KING of the Netherlands felt the need to say to America that democracy is non-negotiable.

Stephen Hawking's parents when people asked them what their son's book is about:

Reading about boustrophedon in chapter B from @dannybate.bsky.social's lovely book, I wonder if someone ever offered the explanation that this is just a natural way to write? When my eldest learned his first letters, he would write in boustrophedon, including changing the direction of the letters.

‘LLMs are inherently probabilistic, not deterministic. They try to guess the answer that sounds best, not the objectively correct one. And that’s not a problem to be fixed. It’s fundamental to how these models work.’

Ok I have the correct book now, @dannybate.bsky.social, but they left out a couple of underscores in my copy

We’re just getting started.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Na de vreselijke mishandeling van het Vlaardingse pleegmeisje, was er enorme boosheid. Terecht. In het spoeddebat eisten álle partijen dat er beter naar kinderen wordt geluisterd. Nu -een jaar later- stemt een Kamermeerderheid tégen ons voorstel dat dit daadwerkelijk regelt. 😔

More like artifictional intelligence amirite

I ordered at the same time @drdragases.bsky.social's and @dannybate.bsky.social's books (note to self: cut back on social media). And look what came in the mail today. Big question: did they confuse this with Clovis, or with Why Q Needs U?

People in a number of fields seem incapable of factoring anything Donald Trump has ever said or done into their analysis. Instead they treat him and his regime like a blank slate. It’s maddening.

They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.

Looking into breaking my "no new books" policy by buying @dannybate.bsky.social 's 'Why Q Needs U' but I hesitate

Fuentes then fantasizes about “breeding gulags”: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

Goh @yvanspijk.bsky.social, dat woord 'obus' heeft een mooie rondreis door Europa gemaakt zeg! In elk geval een mooiere reis dan de granaat in kwestie. ;-)

nos.nl/l/2600415 "Muziekjournalist Verdonschot zag in Minneapolis diezelfde, rechtlijnige Springsteen als toen. "Ik denk trouwens wel dat hij een tijd lang heeft gedacht: ik moet een bruggenbouwer zijn tussen Republikeinen en Democraten." Wat verstaat deze muziekjournalist onder "bruggenbouwer"??

Vraag aan @mennovdbos.bsky.social (of anderen): is er ergens al een reportage over AI-muziek en extreemrechts? Onvrijwillig blootgesteld aan een zender met Nederlandstalige muziek hoorde ik een slecht satirisch lied over het nieuwe kabinet. Door "Ademlicht", wat oogt als een xenofobische AI-account

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Always interesting to listen to @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Finally the Dutch citizens get to have a splendid interview to get to know her and her warnings about (non)privacy. youtube.com/watch?v=54jI...

Mooi artikel van @locuta.bsky.social #trump 1 jaar lang noteerde ik dagelijks wat Trump deed, besloot en verordonneerde. Mijn conclusie? Het is allemaal geen improvisatie: 51% van Project 2025, de blauwdruk voor autocratie, is al gerealiseerd. (www.sampol.be/2026/01/1-ja...)

In Japan people don't say where they live, they say where they have Sunday Mass, and I think that's beautiful.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Het stroomnet zit vol maar Google, Meta en Microsoft breiden ongehinderd - en stiekem! - uit. Hadden we maar een kabinet dat de juiste keuzes maakt. Stroom voor nieuwe wijken, scholen, winkels en warmtetransitie. In plaats van AI-slop, bitcoin mining en deepfake revenge porn.

Geweldig spelletje voor wie wel eens in Frankrijk is geweest. @marieke.bsky.social ?

our data story visualizing the rabbit hole people can fall into with chatGPT is on the cover of today’s @washingtonpost.com @kevinschaul.bsky.social

as is tradition, I post a countdown of my top 100 posts from the year, starting today with No. 100-81. hit the link! www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...

a neat (and scary) survey into AI "companions" and kids www.aura.com/reports/stat... "nearly half of the time kids and teens use AI, it is for companionship, and when they do, the themes of discussion are primarily sexual, romantic, and violent."

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Reposing with alt text: Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Campbell's recent memoir)

Intolerante boodschappen worden zelden openlijk zo gebracht. De meeste mensen zien zichzelf graag als redelijk en moreel goed. Veel effectiever om ze een frame te geven waarin ze intolerant kunnen zijn zonder dat zelfbeeld te hoeven loslaten. Daarom zijn dit soort nep-lieve stukjes geniepig.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Als je per se wilt doen alsof je als journalist/medium geen eigen moreel kompas hebt - want “neutraal” ofzo, krijg je dit. Een glasheldere buitengerechtelijke moordpartij wordt vervaagd tot “omstreden” en “mogelijke oorlogsmisdaad” in een laf ‘zij zeggen dit, maar anderen zeggen dat’-stukje.

When you want to place "Gérard Depardieu" in Name Scrabble but you don't have all the letters

On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳

Elke dag opnieuw verdwijnen mensen met long covid verder uit het zicht. Terwijl buiten het leven doorgaat, liggen patiënten binnen in het donker, soms al 667, 1129 of zelfs 1520 dagen. Wat een indrukwekkende als schrijnende reportage in de Volkskrant. ⤵️ www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

The true journalism scandal is a pathological liar can’t ask for better propaganda than a headline that’s just what he said as if it’s true and the entirety of the story is just his quote with zero context or explanation or skepticism, all published under the name of an established news brand

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Zojuist gehoord op Radio 4: "het Oosterse Romeinse Rijk"